Public Participation and Local Environmental Planning: The collective action problem and the potential of social capital
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- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Local Environment
- Vol. 5 (2) , 153-169
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13549830050009328
Abstract
Expanding the opportunities for public participation in environmental planning is not always the best option. Starting from an institutional public choice analysis of public participation in terms of the collective action problem, this paper emphasises the roots of participatory activities in the incentive structures facing potential participants. It then goes on to consider the strategies that may be adopted for encouraging greater public involvement and looks particularly to the social capital literature for suggestions of how institutional redesign may alter these incentive structures. The paper concludes by distinguishing three different modes of environmental planning, in terms of the rationale for participation, the severity of the collective action problem and the associated participatory strategy that can be adopted.Keywords
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